Ville Vainio wrote:
> On 1/23/06, Fernando Perez <Fernando.Perez at colorado.edu> wrote:
>> (regarding %paste for pasting code even when autoindent is on)
>>>>This is not a bad idea at all. You could even provide the sentinel if you
>>wanted to change it, with a default like '--':
>>> I'm not sure how useful it would be, because -- at the start of line
> isn't a very useful python statement in the first place.
What if it's in the middle of a triple-quoted string?
print """
hi, this is something
--
and now, here's more..."""
print 2+3
The current paste would truncate this in the middle, since it's not tokenizing
the input to know that you are inside a string.
That's why a configurable sentinel is a good idea.
Cheers,
f